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We’ll never have a model of an AI major-general: Artificial Intelligence, command decisions, and kitsch visions of war (2023)
Journal Article
Hunter, C., & Bowen, B. E. (2024). We’ll never have a model of an AI major-general: Artificial Intelligence, command decisions, and kitsch visions of war. Journal of Strategic Studies, 47(1), 116-146. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2023.2241648

Military AI optimists predict future AI assisting or making command decisions. We instead argue that, at a fundamental level, these predictions are dangerously wrong. The nature of war demands decisions based on abductive logic, whilst machine learni... Read More about We’ll never have a model of an AI major-general: Artificial Intelligence, command decisions, and kitsch visions of war.

Essentially Aggregative Harm, Restraint, and Collectivization (2023)
Journal Article
Kahn, E. (2024). Essentially Aggregative Harm, Restraint, and Collectivization. Political Theory, 52(1), 34-59. https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917231185187

Some of the most pressing contemporary social problems result from the amalgamation of a mass of actions that are not intentionally coordinated. Although these essentially aggregative harms are foreseeable, it is unclear what moral duties individuals... Read More about Essentially Aggregative Harm, Restraint, and Collectivization.

Islamism, party change, and strategic conciliation: Evidence from Tunisia (2023)
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McCarthy, R. (2024). Islamism, party change, and strategic conciliation: Evidence from Tunisia. Party Politics, 30(6), 1064-1074. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688231192393

What happens to an Islamist party after moderating its behaviour and ideology? Existing work on Islamist parties has elaborated the varied causes of moderation. Yet, the mixed findings do not capture the full range of Islamist dynamics. This article... Read More about Islamism, party change, and strategic conciliation: Evidence from Tunisia.

Postcolonial nationalism and the global right (2023)
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Zhang, C. (2023). Postcolonial nationalism and the global right. Geoforum, 144(August), Article 103824. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103824

How can postcolonial critique address the use and abuse of the anti-colonial in contemporary reactionary and ultranationalist projects in the Global Easts and South? Building on the literature on amalgams of authoritarianism, social conservatism, and... Read More about Postcolonial nationalism and the global right.

Introduction Turkey and Africa: Motivations, Challenges and Future Prospects (2023)
Journal Article
Eyrice Tepeciklioğlu, E., Vreÿ, F., & Baser, B. (2023). Introduction Turkey and Africa: Motivations, Challenges and Future Prospects. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 26(3), 289-294. https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2023.2236514

Turkey's presence in Africa has experienced significant growth over the last two decades. In recent years, Turkey's expanding African outreach has transformed media narratives and generated a surge of scholarly studies on Turkey's involvement in Afri... Read More about Introduction Turkey and Africa: Motivations, Challenges and Future Prospects.

Theorizing and mapping media ownership networks in authoritarian-populist contexts: a comparative analysis of Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Turkey (2023)
Journal Article
Schnyder, G., Radl, M., Toth, F., Kucukuzun, M., Turnšek, T., Çelik, B., & Pajnik, M. (2024). Theorizing and mapping media ownership networks in authoritarian-populist contexts: a comparative analysis of Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Turkey. Media, Culture and Society, 46(1), 38-59. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437231179366

This paper aims to contribute to the ongoing discussions on authoritarian populism and the media, from the lens of the political economy of ownership. In contrast to studies that consider the link between media and authoritarian populism by focusing... Read More about Theorizing and mapping media ownership networks in authoritarian-populist contexts: a comparative analysis of Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Turkey.

Lateral colonialism: exploring modalities of engagement in decolonial politics from the periphery (2023)
Journal Article
Demetriou, O., Constantinou, C. M., & Tselepou, M. (2023). Lateral colonialism: exploring modalities of engagement in decolonial politics from the periphery. Third World Quarterly, 44(9), 2173-2190. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2226607

This article contributes to an understanding of how the world outside the Global North is complicit in the visibility politics that render spaces of harm relevant or irrelevant to the reproduction of racism. Extending insights from decolonial theoris... Read More about Lateral colonialism: exploring modalities of engagement in decolonial politics from the periphery.

‘#SayNoToRohingya’: a critical study on Malaysians’ amplified resentment towards Rohingya refugees on Twitter during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis (2023)
Journal Article
Rashid, N. Z., & Saidin, M. I. S. (2023). ‘#SayNoToRohingya’: a critical study on Malaysians’ amplified resentment towards Rohingya refugees on Twitter during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. The Round Table, 112(4), 386-406. https://doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2023.2244287

This article investigates how resentment among Malaysians towards Rohingya refugees become amplified on social media during the COVID-19 crisis. The focus of this article is the public discourse of Malaysians on Twitter, regarding Rohingya refugee is... Read More about ‘#SayNoToRohingya’: a critical study on Malaysians’ amplified resentment towards Rohingya refugees on Twitter during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis.